Mile Zero — Bobbi Gibb, Amby Burfoot & CJ Albertson LIVE in Boston

Mile Zero — Bobbi Gibb, Amby Burfoot & CJ Albertson LIVE in Boston

From Marathon Handbook Podcast by Marathon Handbook

April 20, 2026 · 1h 43m

About this episode

The episode features a live discussion with running legends Bobbi Gibb and Amby Burfoot, recapping the 2026 Boston Marathon weekend and exploring the history of women in marathon running.

Recorded LIVE at Trident Booksellers on Newbury Street the weekend of the 2026 Boston Marathon. Michael, Katelyn, and Alex open with a first-hand recap of Alex's chase at a sub-14 elite 5K on Boston weekend — missing shoe bag included — and break down the biggest storylines of race weekend: the deep American elite field, Nike's "Runners Welcome, Walkers Tolerated" Newbury Street stunt, and the quiet disappearance of the traditional Boston expo. Bobbi Gibb — the first woman to run and finish the Boston Marathon, in 1966, 1967, and 1968 — joins us for an extended conversation about falling in love with the race as a spectator in 1964, driving alone across the country in a VW microbus, the BAA rejection letter that told her women were "physiologically incapable" of running a marathon, hiding in the bushes in Hopkinton in her brother's Bermuda shorts, being embraced by the Wellesley scream tunnel, bleeding through her blisters down Boylston, and meeting Governor Volpe at the finish line in the moment that changed running forever. She also sets the historical record straight, talks about her sculpture now installed at mile zero in Hopkinton, and shares her…

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